Western diplomats in Kyiv are privately discussing contingency plans in case the situation sharply worsens because of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in the capital, including a possible relocation of embassies to Lviv or eastern Poland. According to two senior diplomats, such a scenario is being considered in case Russia begins deliberately attacking foreign missions.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #Kiev #USCongress #Russia #Ukraine

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According to the «Movement of Conscientious Objectors», 27-year-old Petrozavodsk resident Nikita Sergeev, who has fitness category «D», was forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and taken to military unit No. 61424. In the morning, he was supposed to be sent to the front.

#VladimirPutin #ConscientiousObjectorsMovement #EvgenyPoddubnyi #defenseministry #NikitaSergeev #Petrozavodsk

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Gennady Zyuganov said at a plenary session of the State Duma that Russia is on the brink of a major war, and called 2029–2030 the time of the European countries’ «hot offensive». He made this statement during deputies’ speeches on current issues.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #zyuganov #CommunistParty #NATO #NurembergTrials

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In 2027, maintaining Vladimir Putin and the presidential administration will cost nearly 37 billion rubles, according to the published draft budget. That is 12% more than in 2026 and 49% more than in 2024.

#PresidentialAdministration #BjudzhetRossii #Layout #VladimirPutin #NovayaGazetaEvropa #PravitelstvoRossii

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The Russian border guard service detained the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship Västerbotten in the Gulf of Finland, which was heading to the Estonian port of Sillamäe. The vessel was held at anchor for several hours for inspection, then allowed to continue its journey, but it is still in the gulf.

#VladimirPutin #EuropeanUnion #Russianborderguards #Sillamäe #GulfofFinland #Sweden

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Great Britain expanded the sanctions list by including 23 individuals and legal entities, as well as vessels of the Russian «shadow fleet». This was reported by the UK Foreign Office.

#AdmiralKasatonov #ArcticLNG2 #UnitedKingdom #VladimirPutin #Novatek #shadowfleet

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The «Travel Companions» study showed that from 2014 to 2023, Vladimir Putin’s family made at least 180 trips abroad on business jets. According to the authors’ calculations, such trips cost more than $5 million, and 24 flights were carried out on planes belonging to 10 wealthy Russians.

#AlinaKabaeva #business #VladimirPutin #corruption #oligarchs #investigation #rfp

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Problems with transporting agricultural products via the Black Sea have so far not led to a food crisis on the scale of spring 2022, but they have already caused the fastest price increase since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rose by 13.1% in Q3 and reached its highest level since Q1 2022, when it gained 19.5%.

#bloomberg #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #graindeal #acrisis #UN #food #statistics #Turkey #BlackSeaFleet

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Gazprom has extended the agreement on supplying Russian gas to Serbia for another three months — until the end of 2026. This was reported by the director of the state company Srbijagas, Dušan Bajatović; the terms remain unchanged, and this is already the third three-month extension since the beginning of the year.

#AlexanderVucic #VladimirPutin #Gazprom #EuropeanCommission #Serbia #Serbiagas

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The Russian government submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the federal budget for 2027 and the planning period of 2028–2029; the order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In 2027, spending is planned at 48.8 trillion rubles, revenues at 43.3 trillion, and the deficit will amount to 5.5 trillion.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #mole #NationalDefense #nationalprojects #federalbudget

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According to a study by «Proekt», Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva were abroad at the same time at least once — in Kazakhstan in February 2017. They flew there separately, and the publication links the timing coincidence to Putin’s informal meetings with Nursultan Nazarbayev near Almaty.

#AlinaKabaeva #VladimirPutin #Kazakhstan #NursultanNazarbaev #uzbekistan #Shymbulak

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In the book by The Wall Street Journal American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a family acquaintance of the Putins called Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin «a heavy drinker». In January 2024, Vladimir Putin said that he had never seen his father drunk.

#TheWallStreetJournal #VladimirPutin #LeningradSchoolNo193 #EvanGershkovich

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The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich writes in the book «This Damned Beautiful Land» that Vadim Krasikov, whom Germany handed over to Russia during the prisoner exchange in August 2024, was captured a year later on cameras at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow and behind the wheel of a BMW X6 in Moscow. Gershkovich suggests that this may indicate Krasikov’s return to work for the intelligence services.

#VadimKrasikov #VladimirPutin #Gru #FSB #Chkalovsky #EvanGershkovich

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Ukraine returned 14 children from the part of Kherson region controlled by the Russian army, said the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. Among them were four boys and 10 girls aged six to 17.

#VladimirPutin #InternationalCriminalCourt #UN #Russia #Ukraine #Khersonregion

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At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev again called for freezing hostilities in Ukraine in order to move to negotiations. He also called Vladimir Putin «the most acceptable political figure» for Europe and the world.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #Germany #Kazakhstan #KassymJomartTokayev #Russia #FriedrichMerz

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In 2027, Russia’s federal budget spending on servicing public debt will rise to 4.6 trillion rubles, or 9.4% of all expenditures, according to materials for the budget draft reviewed by Reuters. That is 670 billion rubles more than allocated for the current year, and almost as much as is planned for the entire «national economy».

#AntonSiluanov #VladimirPutin #publicdebt #MinistryofFinanceoftheRussianFederation #Russia

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree that restricts the export of cash rubles from Russia: citizens can no longer take out more than 1 million rubles to the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), as well as to Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. For legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, the ban applies regardless of the amount, and the decree takes effect on September 29.

#VladimirPutin #eez #Russia #finance #Economy

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree increasing the authorized strength of Russia’s armed forces by 15,500 people. This is the president’s fourth such decision since the start of the year.

#Thelikelihoodofamajorwar #VladimirPutin #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #mobilization #Russia

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree on September 28 that restricts public access to detailed information about Russia’s fuel and energy complex. The ban covers information about buyers and sellers of energy resources, export prices, carriers and insurers, vessels, supply routes, terminals and the timing of export operations, as well as data on refinery operations and exchange plans for selling gasoline and diesel.

#VladimirPutin #Russia #fuelandenergycomplex #FAS #fns #energyexports

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While ordinary Russians are being denied the opportunity to obtain visas to the EU, sanctions are being lifted from two emblematic figures of Putin’s Russia. The negative consequences of this decision are clear. But are there any positive ones? 

#AlisherUsmanov #Analytics #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #doublestandards #EuropeanUnion #compromises #Luxembourg #MikhailFridman #oligarchs #sanctions #France #elites

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